The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27

"Unsur Fritz" and the Prince of Wales.
While the Queen is highly respected she Is
really rather unpopular, largely the result
of having kept herself in seclusion for SO
long and the fact that she Is very parsi-
monious and takes everything that she can
get, and expends as little of it as possible.
TIE London merchants aud tradesmen
have complained bitterly of the manner
in which, since the death OF Prince Albert,
she has kept awsy from London and thus
deprived trade OF the stimulus and patron
age which usually follows the court.
THE PRINCE OF WALES.
Her children are none of them ia
voIites except the Prince OF Wales,
who Is exceedingly popular with
the citizens of London, owing to
his pleasant and genial manners
and his free, transformations way of
mIngling with the people. He goes
every where and there is no public event
in which be does not take an active and
often laborious part. 1t has been said
that he is the hardest worked man in Lon
don ard the number of public buildings
he opens ard corner stones he dedicates
ought 10 pretty well fill up the time of
any one man to say nothing of his other
duties. His popularity is largely assisted
by the exceptional popularity of his love
" wife, the Princess Of Wales, who is be-
she is beautiful. The Queen, who for the
past twenty years has seemed to stu1ious'
IL avoid showing herself to the public, is
now on exhibition somewhere almost
every day. First it was the opening OF
the Peoples Palace, next the celebration
of her birthday, and this great week Of
jubilee she has done little else than appear
before her enthusiastic subjects. The day
following the Jubilee services she
OF London, who were assembled in Hyde
Park for that purpose. The next day she
went through the same thing at Windsor
and Eton- To-day she gives grand garden
party at buckingham Palace, and on Sat
urcay reviews the London Volunteers at
the same place. l surmise the old lady
Will be glad when the jubilee celebrations
are over and she can retire once more to
the seclusion Of Balmoral and Osborne.
LONDON, THE MAGNIFICENT.
The Lon don residents vis6,with each other
in the laYishuess of their decorations for
Jubilee day, and some of the displays were
truly magnificent. At night che whole
metropolis Was ore blaze of Egat, and
London seemed to have emptied her popu-
lation into the streets. And when this
mighty city does that, one may be sure OF
such q crowd IS is not often seen. What
great, grand, wonderful place 1t is. Think
i
this one city as in the entire Safe of Indi-
ana There are more Irish here than ia
Dublin, more Scotch than in Edinburgh,
more Jews than IN Palestine and more
Catholics than in Rome. a little world Of
itself, fourier miles long aud eight miles
wide, with a population Of nearly five
million inhabitants. Ii is claimed that
London consumes every year 600 600 oxen
end calves, 100000 sheep, 25O,O hogs.
S,O09, 90 poultry and game, 400 000, 900
pounds of fsn, 100000 900 oysters,
600, eco Holsters, and 100000 salmon.
Along with this vast amouot of food the
L1ndoneTs absorb yearly $50 0G0. 600 quarts
of porter and Ale, 5000, 600 quarts OF
spirits and 80 600 600 quarts OF wine. For
tie EDgEshmen Is the newest eater and
drinker known to the world. Ia fact he
spends about half his time at one or the
other. To the American it is a constant
source of wonder as TO where he puts it all
and how be lives under it. IL Americans
drank one quarter what Eoglishmen do we
should all be in iDebriate asylums. 1t does
not seem to hurt the native and he sits for
hours drinking stiff brandy and soda
without apparently being any the worse
for it. 1t is claimed that this is largely
due 20 the peculiar climate, aud it is quite
likely there is much truth in the theory.
ENGLISH WOMEN AS DRIEKERs.
Certain it is that every body drinks here
men, women and children, some 10000
bars and public houses in London and they
are constantly thronged with men and
women. Women enter them about as freely
as men and it would be hard standing at the
bar with drink before them and usually
slcaholic drinks, such as brandy and Soda
Scotch whisky, gin, wine, or glass of
strong ale, or "bitters." There is no
conceslment about it, because it is not re-
garded as anything wrong, aud they can
not at all understand the feeling we have
about ii in America. In conversation with
an English lady few days since remarked
that il was not considered the proper thing
for ladies to drink In America, and that
there were whole States in which the sale
OF liquor was entirely prohibited by law.
She looked at me with amszsment to see if
/ really meant il, and finally replied that
she supposed it was in the far West where
she had been told the people were very
wild and undivided. So far from drink.
ing being regarded IS reprehensible here
observe that il is the fellow that don't
drink that is looked on with suspicion. He
is generally set down as a crank that 1t is
well to avoid. The bars, or "pubHcs," are
nearly all served By women who are called
baImaids, and who perform the same
duties as fall 10 barkeepers in America. 1t
is considered no more disgrace to be bar
maid than 10 Nil any other position thai
falls 10 the lot OF working girls. and many
OF them are well behaved and well con-
Quoted young women. There are no back
Gcors,f slleywsys, screens or anything OF
that sort connected with the drin king
places here. There is no occasion for
them as there is no more conceslment
about going into a bar than there is about
going into a restaurant. The law is liberal
and therefore never disoheyed. ALI places
are required to close at 1880 each night,
and on Sunday to remain closed except
from to in the afternoon and to IL at
night, when they are in full blast, The
quaint old manner of naming
me public houses aud taverns
is still in vogue, and over their doors are to
be seen such signs as THE Spotted DOG"
The Angel" Hog IN the Pouud,' BLACK
Swan" Dog and Gun," Red Lion"
"Biue Boor," etc. 1t rather shocks Ameri-
cane at first to go into leading thester.
such as lrving's, for example, and s g
drinks passed around among the audience
between the acts, or 10 see bars on every
floor of the theateT and, instead of being
put out of sight, placed in prominent
places so as to be easy OF access to Their
patrons, and among them are free uently to
be seen elegantly dressed ladies. No re-
pToach whatever attaches to them in this
country on that account, and they are Of
ten accompanied by fathers. husbands aud
brothers. I'm afraid the prohibition tick
ct would not receive much support over